I do not own the TMNT
Due to certain concepts I've set up a system so that each Chapter is rated and the reason for the rating is given on each chapter.
This chapter is rated K plus for mild description of blood and violence.
Blood. Most of it looks the same, but it's not. Even when it's on the same hand, or from the same person, it can have two natures.
Raph stared at the back of his hand where the reddish-brown stain was beginning to itch.
Beside him was Donatello. He was also looking at the blood that stained his own palms.
Although it wasn't obvious to anyone else Raph knew that the blood came from the same person. The blood itself smelled very faintly of the drug the kid had been using. Whoever that kid was he was a junkie, hardcore stuff and for a long time to get the smell in his blood. But glancing out the corner of his eye Raph could see that Donnie didn't see it the same way he did.
Where Raph saw a punk on the streets flying higher than a kite and threatening his brothers, Donnie saw mistakes made, potential, and possibly a family waiting for this kid somewhere.
The blood on Raph's hand came from a punch in the face; the kid's nose was most likely broken and he'd have a dark, ugly black eye. Probably already did.
The blood on Donnie's palm had soaked through the gauze he had pressed to the boy's head after the kid had fallen off the building.
This guy, this anonymous person, was in the hospital right now. Maybe still in intensive care. Most likely in intensive care, if not the morgue. Falling off a building isn't easy on anyone, no matter what kind of drugs are in their system. It's even harder on the body when the person is still dazed from a fist to the face. Whether the kid survived or not they would only learn if they ran into him on the streets again.
Donnie's hand's dropped to his side. He wasn't untouched by the night's events, he always hated fighting, but now that he was sure the blood couldn't have gotten into any cuts or scratches in the skin it was simply an annoyance to wash off.
Strange how the blood on Donnie's hands was nearly out of sight out of mind, but the blood on Raph's hands wouldn't be going away anytime soon.
Strange, two different kinds of blood, from the same kid.
